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If you think "Big Data" started in ~2017, you may not be old enough/reading enough history to comment effectively. Look at "data mining" and "data warehousing"
by AnimalMuppet 2y ago
If you think "Big Data" started in ~2017, you may not be old enough/reading enough history to comment effectively. Look at "data mining" and "data warehousing" for previous incarnations. The general idea has been around since at least the 1980s.
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- bbor 2y agoHa, fair enough, I deserved that! I just mentioned that year in that sentence because that’s when the linked graph takes off. For the curious onlooker: this person pretty much nailed it with “1980s”, according to NGrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Machine+learning%2C+data+mining%2C+data+warehouse%2C+&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Machine+learni...
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoThanks for the "fair enough". I was worried that I had been too harsh.